Chapter 19: Otaku's Gourmet Cooking
With Alice's help, the ingredients for the Golden Egg Fried Rice and Lamp Shadow Mushroom Bisque were easily gathered, and the next step was to practice cooking and collecting food spirits, irrigate the food tree, and prepare for the food competition in three days.
Gathering the spirit of food can be done at the same time as you practice cooking.
Because she doesn't know Alice's original identity, and her current image is sweet and cute, her joining has been unanimously welcomed by the two-dimensional residents.
After returning home and having dinner, Fang Yuan began to practice cooking at the urging of Alice.
"McDonald's Cow, the golden egg fried rice you made is so delicious!"
As a demonstration, Mai Dangniu took the lead in making a perfect golden egg fried rice, which was quickly eaten by Fang Yuan and Alice, even after dinner, Fang Yuan couldn't help but eat a little more, and now there was still some unfinished.
There is also the Lamp Shadow Mushroom Soup, which contains no less food spirit, a golden egg fried rice and a Light Shadow Mushroom Soup Fang Yuan collected most of the food spirit, if you let the McDonald Beef make a few more servings, the food tree will soon be able to blossom and bear fruit.
It's a pity that this kind of food is not unlimited, even with the strength of McDonald's beef, you can only make one serving a day.
In this way, if you want to collect more food spirits, you can only rely on Fang Yuan to practice more.
Because of Alice's help, the ingredients collected this time were more sufficient, and under the guidance of Mai Dangniu, he started cooking for the first time in his life, and the previous instant noodles should not count.
"The rice is too soft to make fried rice."
"If you put less oil, you can't completely soak the rice."
"If the egg mixture is not completely broken, it will affect the taste of the fried rice."
"The oil temperature is too high, can't you smell the mushy smell of crab roe?"
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"Well, there were no serious mistakes, barely passing."
After eight consecutive failures, he finally got the evaluation of McDonald's Cow barely passing.
"Can you really eat it this time?" As a professional taster, Alice has changed from impatience to a little cringe, after all, for foodies, tasting food is a kind of happiness, and eating terrible food is a nightmare.
"Alice, you have to believe me, I really worked hard this time." Fang Yuan himself didn't have the courage to try what he had made.
"All right, master." Alice frowned, picked a small piece of fried rice, and carefully put it in her mouth.
Fang Yuan looked at Alice expectantly.
"How's it going, Alice?"
"Well, it's much better than before, it doesn't seem to be so unpalatable."
Hearing the previous words, Fang Yuan was still very happy, and the second half of the sentence made him depressed, isn't it unpalatable after practicing for a long time......
I picked a piece of fried rice and put it in my mouth and tasted it, the taste was okay, much better than the meals I usually cook at home, but it was not at all a level compared to the golden egg fried rice made by McDonald's cow.
Recipe: Golden Egg Fried Rice, Level 1, Proficiency 1/100.
The system prompts that the Golden Egg Fried Rice has gained 1 proficiency point, which means that the previous failure failed to even obtain proficiency eight times, and it seems that the cooking upgrade is even more difficult than originally thought.
Although Alice didn't have a high opinion of this golden egg fried rice, this was the first time Fang Yuan had successfully cooked food anyway, and it was affirmed by McDonald Cow and the system, which also gave him a little confidence.
As McDonald Cow said, any food will contain a spirit of food, and even Fang Yuan, who had failed eight times before, had collected a trace of the spirit of food from them, but the number was almost negligible.
Fang Yuan's Lv1 Golden Egg Fried Rice contains about one-tenth of the food spirit of McDonald's Max level Golden Egg Fried Rice, which has already surprised him very much, you must know that he has never encountered a better food than the food spirit contained in Lv1 Golden Egg Fried Rice in the real world.
McDonald's Max-level Golden Egg Fried Rice can only be made once a day, while Fang Yuan's cooking is completely unlimited, as long as the ingredients are sufficient, he can cook infinitely. In this way, even if the success rate is only about 1/10, you can collect a lot of food spirits a day, and continuous practice will increase the success rate of cooking.
The cooking skills of the Lamp Shadow Mushroom Soup are much simpler than the Golden Egg Fried Rice, but because there is no recipe, Fang Yuan can only make the Lv5 level of Lamp Shadow Mushroom Soup at most, and the starting point is from Lv0, the failure rate is higher than that of the Golden Egg Fried Rice, and it takes only twenty servings to succeed in one serving, and the spirit of food contained in it is much less than that of the Golden Egg Fried Rice.
After tossing for most of the night, the ingredients collected during the day were exhausted, Fang Yuan finally collected a small bottle of Food Spirit, and at the same time increased the proficiency of Golden Egg Fried Rice to Lv1,8/100, and Light Shadow Mushroom Soup Lv0,4/50.
"A bottle of Gourmet Spirit shouldn't be enough to make the Gourmet Tree blossom and bear fruit, it seems that I will have to go out to collect Gourmet Spirit tomorrow, and bring Alice back with some ingredients by the way." Time is running out, and cooking skills must be improved as soon as possible, and the food tree must bear fruit before the food competition begins.
Fang Yuan was very glad that he exchanged a Momotaro's glutinous rice balls for Alice, this was the best decision he made today, not only did he have a sweet and cute cat-eared maid, but also an incomparably powerful bodyguard, if it weren't for Alice, he wouldn't even be able to collect all the ingredients for cooking, the combat effectiveness shown by the sword crab and Alice was a little scared now when he thought about it, who knows what kind of things he would encounter in the future.
"It seems that the task of building a martial arts hall should also be completed as soon as possible, and the fighting technique Lv1 in the reward seems to be a good thing."
Early the next morning, Fang Yuan poured all the small bottles of food spirits collected last night on the food tree, and the small flower bones became fuller, but they still did not bloom, so he had to take Alice out to continue collecting ingredients.
Li Muning, this girl naturally wants to follow, the two small fish that Anan helped her catch yesterday were raised by her in a clay pot, and when she got up this morning, she saw that one was dead and the other was dying, so she was worried about letting Anan catch a few more bigger fish today.
The three of them stopped walking around the village, and soon Anan's bamboo basket was filled with the "treasures" picked up by Li Muning, and now he was completely reduced to a coolie, and he wanted to cry without tears.
Fang Yuan didn't add any more burden to Anan, the ingredients and other two-dimensional elements collected along the way were all packed in Alice's package, and her magical package seemed to never be satisfied.
None of the three of them noticed that there were several pairs of eyes in the bushes not far away, which had been watching them.
"He is Fang Yuan, the young master of the Fang family?"
"Yes, young master, I have inquired clearly, the butterfly man is from the Fang family, I heard that it was picked up by the crazy young master of the Fang family."